Unreal. Politicizing the civil service down several more levels, wiping out any level of independent policy formation - all just over 2 weeks from an election. One step closer to banana republic status.
in the last couple weeks there were big jumps in support for confirming barrett and, among democrats, fracking
biden announced that he would form a ‘commission’ on expanding the supreme court. so that’s not happening
his healthcare messaging hinges on protecting/enhancing the ACA. what happens when the court invalidates it?
Despicable. Well, I guess that’s 2.1 million voters (the number of federal employees) who will vote as one man for Biden.
On the other hand, he could create a lot of damage among civil servants even if he isn’t reelected in two weeks. He has still several months as president to go, whatever the result.
Oh my…
Last night is a perfect illustration of why we’re where we are as a country. Trump’s performance in that debate was tonally different, although still disgusting. But how relatively reserved he was meant the post-election conversation focused on it being an “improved performance”, it was a real debate, and suggestions that he did what he needed to do.
Yet in reality he was expressing the views of a man who lived in a different universe than the rest of us. If your first, second, and third comment on that debate was not how nothing Trump said had any basis in reality then you are part of the problem. Yet that seems to have been buried under discussions of how much Trump will have given potential Republican voters a reason to vote for him. I get that as a candidate you have to approach this as a performance. I get there is value in trying to understand how various elements of it will play with the voters. But the people who cover these things are basically theatre critics not journalists. It gives not just a license for candidates it get up there and just lie their tits off, but it incentives it. Kristen Welker has received almost universal acclaim for her performance, but I don’t think she challenged him on the truthfulness of his comments once.
Well, I’m going out to vote early today. I’m wearing a mask and taking an AK-47, just in case. Obviously I’m kidding about that gun part. But I will take an umbrella as it is going to rain, and even early voting seems to be taking a long, long time.
I have an idea…
Cross party challenge/requirement for big tech…
Sort out elections so we can have easy, accurate, fast, tamper-free and fair voting. Use technology to achieve it. Make it their civic duty to provide for this. It can’t be beyond the likes of Apple, Google, FaceBook, Amazon… to sort this shit out, if required to do so.
Just a superb Lincon Project ad.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1319247130809278464
I know that after the election it will probably be something like this
but they are damned good at their trade.
Let’s hope some good will come out of it.
I liked Bidens response here
Biden mockingly calls him Abraham Lincoln and then reels off a list of examples of his overt racism.
Trump responds with indignation about being called Abraham Lincoln
There was another moment that made me feel like I was talking with my ex. In rebutting Biden’s accusations about not wanting to take responsibility for the failed Covid response, he said “I take the responsibility for that.” And then started his very next statement by saying “it’s not my fault.”
One hour to vote. Not as bad as I was expecting. Long line, socially distanced, but it all moved along. And, funny thing, when I checked in and gave them my I.d. I had a brief conversation with the woman there, and even though American, it turns out she went to the same Uni as me back in England in a semester abroad programme. Small world.
the trump campaign needs to keep hammering biden for loving his wayward son
there’s not an opioid addiction crisis in the heartland or anything; nobody out there can relate to having a f–kup for a kid
We know Trump has no coherent argument for himself, but he never has. However, one of the things that was striking about last night was how unable he was to find a message about Biden and stick to it. That ability to define his opponent and stay laser focused on that, even while faliaing wildly about every other part of his campaign, is what got him elected in 2016. Yes, Hillary was easy to define, and Trump had a ton of help in amplifying that, but sticking on the message he wanted to give about his opponent was the one area he had discipline.
This time around he just hasn’t been able to figure it out.
Is Biden worthless because he’s been in government for 50 years and got nothing done, or is he a scary radical who will destroy our government and country as we know it?
Is he a sleepy guy with dementia, or is he a guy acing his tests because he’s on PEDs?
There are reasons to think Trump is off his game…older, stress, the difficulty of running the same play as an incumbent, but I really think it comes down to how difficult he’s finding it go at Biden specifically. It also drives home just how awful a candidate Hillary was, and maybe points to what will be one of the key factors in finding good candidates in the future, in the social media age. Will it be more beneficial to be a relative blank canvas that makes it difficult for your opponent to define you a specific way than to have high pre-existing name recognition? I get that seems counterintuitive given that it’s Biden’s campaign Im using to raise the question, but I think it’s worth pondering.
I have no words anymore…
Of course he is not the most racist president historically, but he is most very likely the most racist president in recent times. Obviously, if you go a century back in time, racism was part of the reigning thought and culture, basically everywhere in the world. The idea that your tribe is superior is older than old and exists in every civilization. And traditionally , skin colour or particular outlandish clothes, were a nice indicator as to someone belonging to your tribe or not.
I guess my point is that the bastard is out of touch with the times, while a man living in a society, say, a century ago, would be following the norm if he was racist. And yes, I do think Trump has revealed himself to have some racist ideas…
I have. He is an ethnic nationalist propagandist and this is hardly the first time he makes a rhetorical case for ultra-nationalist policies. It is the norm with Tucker, he can invite guests from the far-left sometimes, but only if they say certain things that fit Tucker’s policy of propping up Trump against liberal attacks. Generally speaking, his rhetoric is nationalistic and his agenda certainly is.This means that southern “hordes” are worth less.